Meet Indu Subaiya, who has paved her way both as an entrepreneur, and as a filmmaker. She is also greatly known as a keynote speaker and a moderator, for example, at the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative. Wow — Welcome Indu! Indu is passionate about healthcare and enhancing people’s knowledge about health, which is why […]

Finnish healthcare company Nightingale Health has been chosen out of hundreds of applications to be presented at the Solve pitch event that will be held today at United Nations headquarters. Solve is a program led by MIT that seeks solutions for the world’s most challenging problems. Nightingale participates in the challenge with their blood analysis […]

Biobots manufactures 3D bioprinters that build living tissues out of human cells. CEO Danny Cabrera believes this is only the beginning for 3D biology. BioBots stems from an innovation competition at University of Pennsylvania. Founders participated in the competition with the idea of 3D printers. A few months later, the fun research project had turned […]

Are you into health & well-being and still wondering which speeches to check and what networking opportunities not to miss at Slush? Here is the overview of health content, including keynotes about foodtech and connected health, networking events with investors and over 250 health startups attending! Slush introduced the health content in collaboration with The […]

Organized for the second time, the Nordic Showcase will present the next upcoming game changers from the Nordic region. Make sure not to miss your chance to see the top 10 Nordic founders step on Founder Stage on the first day of Slush, sharing the most important milestones along their entrepreneurial journeys. The Nordic Showcase will […]

CareMonkey, an Australia-based startup, left Slush 2015 as the winner of the annual Slush 100 pitching competition. During the year 2016 CareMonkey will focus on expanding to markets outside Australia and fuels its growth primarily by cash flow and additional funding from the founders. CareMonkey provides a risk management system that automatically keeps medical and […]

Traditionally one of the major topics on the Green Stage agenda is healthcare. This year you’ll get a chance to learn, what new wearables are out there helping us to stay fit and healthy, how is the personalized medicine developing and what the future of healthcare holds. “The future of healthcare” session taking place on […]

Urska Srsen met her co-founder Sandro Mur on a kitesurfing trip in Croatia. For her, becoming an entrepreneur was a very spontaneous and almost accidental process. Something that started as a project ended up as a business. It all started when Urska’s friend Sandro contacted her mother, one of the leading obstetical gynecologists in Europe, […]

We’ve all got back to reality after a whirlwind few days at Slush a month ago. Looking back at what happened at the event, it’s not hard to notice that once again digital health was one of the hottest and biggest themes. Nobody seems to question anymore that health technology in Finland and the Nordics […]

During the last years the business in measuring how healthy we live has blossomed. Until now few have focused on how well we recharge during sleep – that’s exactly what the Finnish-born startup Beddit wanst to teach consumers to start observing. “A third of your life is spent sleeping. For a long time we have […]

“The feeling of taking all of the responsibility, having the space to be creative, being able to solve problems that you see around you and in your business is the most fulfilling thing I can imagine doing.” -Louise Eriksson At the age of 19, Louise Eriksson founded her first company – an e-commerce company called […]

Last year at Slush, the health track and demo area attracted a lot of attention and interest. This time around, digital health is going to get even bigger with nearly 200 companies from this domain attending the event. We’ll see plenty of creative solutions that improve consumers’ wellbeing, from physical activity to mental fitness. So here […]

Slush Health invites everyone curious to discover, listen and learn from today’s brightest minds in health technology. Organized together with Health SPA, Slush Health program features a lineup of the industry leading speakers, product launches and a demo area where health and wellness startups showcase their products. Have a look at some of the highlights […]

We have unveiled the next 100 companies! This year, companies are arriving to Slush from as far as the Indian Ocean. Today, however, we are looking a bit closer. Here are three examples of those who only have one sea to cross to make it to Helsinki: companies from around the Baltic Sea. Sociotransit makes […]

In November, Helsinki will be filled with startups from different tech sectors. We’re proud to introduce the first 100 and give you a better glimpse at the products of three of the firms. Last year a total of 1,200 companies attended Slush. The startups, a rough third of which were Finnish, came from 68 different […]

Today is the World Diabetes Day. There are currently 371 million people living with this terrible disease. Heini Jokinen, a volunteer at Slush, who has diabetes, tells me that every single minute of her life she has to control what she eats, drinks, how much she exercises and how many insulin injections she has to make. […]

Health and wellness domain is currently gaining momentum and is becoming one of the most exciting markets of the digital age. The aging of the population, the fitness craze and quantified self movement drive demand for innovative solutions while advances in technology make them possible. A lot of startups emerge in the region to address […]

Imagine a device that helps to screen and diagnose blinding eye diseases already at an early stage. Many companies have tried to develop and commercialize such a device, but most of them have failed. But in 1997 a co-operation project was launched together with a visionary physician and small group of engineers. These were the […]

Another company of the first 100 startups registered to Slush 2013, BetterDoctor is on a mission to change the US healthcare system with the help of a web and mobile service. Let’s see how the Finns are trying to solve this one over in America. Why healthcare, Ari Tulla, CEO and Co-Founder of BetterDoctor? Each […]

With our pace of life it is no wonder we forget how important it is to drink water and often replace it with countless cups of coffee or sugary drinks. Caktus, one of the first companies that registered at Slush and a startup born in Finland, is set to change our habits with the solution […]